FREE Back to School Cleaning Checklist!

“Back to School Cleaning Checklist” will help you get super organised in time for the kids starting school!

I love being organised and lately, I’ve been trying to get on top of outstanding chores, tidying up and giving the house a bit of a spring clean.

With my daughter starting school, I’ve been spending time thinking about how to get ready for school too. A clean is needed!

Our house has combined living, dining and kitchen areas and it’s the place we spend most of our time. I love that I can be making dinner or working on my laptop and always have the kids nearby where I can see them.

The floor is fully tiled, which is fab for easy cleaning, although these kids create a lot of mess! The floor is always covered in spilled milk, crushed up biscuits and squished fruit. Oh and my toddler is going through a phase of catapulting everything off his plate around the room. WHY?

To help get our house spick and span now the kids are going back to school, Sabco sent me their exclusive Back to School Cleaning Pack. The box was huge – and I secretly hoped there might be someone inside to do the cleaning too!

The Sabco Back to School Pack included:

1. Super Swish Spray Mop. Fancy!

Forget lugging around a mop and bucket, this fancy mop has an ergonomic trigger so you can control the amount of liquid on the floor. Which is ideal for those times I have to mop when the kids are around and they skid around like ice-skaters!

The Sabco Super Swish Mop

I also love that the bottle can be filled with your favourite cleaning product or just water. We’re trying to reduce the number of harmful chemicals we use in the home and there are so many times when water alone is all that is needed to clean up the mess.

It has a microfibre pad which can be washed in the machine and is suitable for cleaning tiles, timber, lino and more. Find out more here.

2. 3-in-1 Spray Squeegee

This window cleaner has a compact, all-in-one design to keep your windows sparkling clean. Again, it has a machine washable, microfibre pad, spray bottle and has a professional quality rubber blade for a streak-free finish.

3. Premium Cobweb & Ceiling Fan Broom

Despite having a clean home, we do get the odd spider. Or as my 1 year old calls them, “cider”. I wish! This broom is fab for cleaning cobwebs from corners, fans, and eaves and the extendable handle adjusts to 1.3m

Grab your Free Back to School Cleaning List!

I’ve created a cleaning checklist that helps me keep everything clean and organised that the kids need for daycare or school. This would work just the same with school-aged kids soon. I will update it soon with more detail like how to clean a backpack, how to clean books and a uniform thoroughly.

I’ve broken down the checklist to cover every back to school detail such as clothing, bags and lunches.

The kids help me out too when they can. I like to involve them in tidying the house too by putting away their toys and keeping their rooms neat. Of course, the tidiness sometimes doesn’t last more than five minutes but they are starting to understand why we tidy up.

Disclosure: this post is sponsored by Sabco who kindly gifted us their exclusive Back to School Cleaning Pack. If only they had sent a cleaner too ;) Hope you love my free Back to School Cleaning Checklist! This post contains affiliate links meaning if you make a purchase, I receive a small commission. This doesn’t affect the price you pay.

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Conall Smith

/ 5:08 pm

I always used Vacuum Cleaner for cleaning. Because Vacuum Cleaner is one of the simple, easiest and inexpensive methods to remove loose dirt, food crumbs and other pieces of debris that can accumulate on the floor

“Many Hands Make Light Work” is my family’s motto. Have everyone contribute to house cleaning by setting up a clipboard with pegs that have chores on them. Have everyone do 3 (or more or less) chores a week to contribute to keeping the home neat and tidy.

I keep a clean and tidy house by making sure that my cleaning fairies are well rested every night and have a large amount of 100’s and 1000’s to munch on while they clean…. Not really, i just pretend I’m a fairy while I clean and act like I have magic powers to make it more fun!

Keeping cleaning products and utensils in strategic places around the house so you can easily grab them and clean while you’re in or near that room. I often find that I will see something that needs cleaning, leave to get the products I need and then get distracted along the way by my husband or kids or a phone call – and then completely forget what I was doing. If what I need is right there, I’ll get it done straight away.

I always find that even when it seems overwhelming, just getting a load of clothes in the washing machine and/or dishes in the dishwasher puts me in a better frame of mind. The rhythmic hum of a washer at work makes me feel like I’ve already made progress and gives me the energy to keep going :)

As a mum with two autistic children, I need to do most of cleaning jobs by myself. I love to use homemade white vinegar spray cleaner for cleaning windows, bathroom and kids furnitures.A well organised plan is a key and breaking big task into several small tasks for the spring cleaning can provide success cleaning results in the short time. This Sabco Pack has smart cleaning solutions for everyone as I seen on TV and Love From Mim blog . I would have brilliant Sabco Cleaning tools for faster cleaning experience than my traditional cleaning way.

My best tip if a cordless vacuum as you can so easily take it anywhere and be a SWEEPING success on the go! It’s amazing how better a room looks if the floor is clean. And this is a bit urgh but I have a damp scrubber just for the floor and I wipe up mess with my foot all around the room as it’s quicker than mopping!

My tip would be to invest in a kitchen timer, then set it for 10/15 minutes (depending on how much time you have to spare/how long you can be bothered cleaning for). Then try and complete as many tasks as you can before the timer goes off. You can do this as often as you like; a couple of times each day, or more/less depending on personal situations. I find that I get a lot more done this way as opposed to doing my chores spread across the day.
Also, buy a spare laundry basket (you can call it the ‘junk basket”) and as you clean, pick up any toys, books, junk that you find and put them in the basket. Get family members to put away what belongs to them. It really helps to make things less cluttered.

My tip would be to invest in a kitchen timer, and set it for 10/15 minutes (depending how much time you have spare, or how long you can be bothered cleaning for!), and then try and complete as many tasks as possible before the timer sounds.
You can do this a couple of times each day, or more/less. I find that I get a lot more done in shorter bursts than if I spread the chores out across the day.
Also, buy an extra laundry basket (you can call this the ‘junk basket”), and use it to pick up any toys/books/junk you find as you’re cleaning and get family members to take what’s their and put them away. It helps keep things less cluttered.

When it comes to cleaning I can only manage it in small bursts or I lose the will to live! Ha, ha! I would rather listen to a radio talk back show (in a language I don’t even speak) while plucking my armpit hair, than clean! I set up my cleaning products and then settle down on the couch to watch my weekly dose of “Bold and the Beautiful” which I have recorded. I clean one or two things every ad break and then settle back on the couch in between ads for my next instalment of what my husband calls “brothel TV”! This makes cleaning just bearable!

My children help out by doing chores for pocket money, and I make sure I clean everyday at least 30 mins and wash once a day, if I didn’t do the washing everyday I would have so much to do on the weekend I do at least 2 loads a day

The best tip is: don’t have kids…. but if its too late for that; Ive just discovered the audible app (audio books). I pop in my headphones, turn on my “book” and suddenly i dont even care that im cleaning cause im so engrossed in the plot!

The children share a bedroom so the other room is used for their toy room as that way it can be cleaned less than the rest of the house and i dont step on lego everyday (and can close the door so i dont have to think about the mess lol).

I started making household members accountable for their own mess. And it’s worked wonders. My partner used to leave clothes all over the floor so to make him accountable I didn’t wash anything from the floor. One day he said he had no clean boxer shorts and had to find the “cleanest pair” off the floor to wear. GROSS. Now all clothes are in the basket. :) as for the kids, whatever I find on the floor at the end of the day disappears into a box, they can’t have anything in it til Sunday, when they have to put everything in the box away. Even if it was stuff needed for school. (I got the kids to write a note to the teacher as to why they didn’t have their homework or books) They learnt quite fast to put things away after use. Now, weeks later I barely pick any of there stuff up for the Box.

Clean it when you see it! If I see some food bits on the benchtop or dust in a corner, I clean it up immediately. I used to just leave it and think ‘I’ll come back to that’ but I never did! This way I stay on top of the mess!

My tip for a clean and tidy house is to get the kids involved, I find that if they help me it stays cleaner for longer as they are less likely to mess it up again…if that fails I put all the mess in one room and shut the door :)

The kids are pretty good now they both know to pack up the toys before dinner and put them away in the special baskets they have also I clean one room at a time from top to bottom before I move on to the next room the bathroom gets a quick wipe over every day and once a week a through clean

Having upstairs and downstairs- adds to the volume of potential mess. So I leave dosmestos near the toilet to squirt in after number 2’s, because it eliminates smells and lets face it the muck slides off more easily with each flush. I also keep empty detergent bottle with pre-mixed cleaner in there in my 2 bathrooms so that when grime dose build up. I can clean the glass, while I shower. I tend to bring dirty clothes down when I come down and also include contents from tiny bathroom bin and empty shampoo bottles all in the 1 basket. I take clean bin and baskets of clean clothes and new bottles of shampoo and tubes of toothpaste up with me when I go up.

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“Back to School Cleaning Checklist” will help you get super organised in time for the kids starting school! I love being organised and lately, I’ve been trying to get on top of outstanding chores, tidying up and…